| INKJET | Mark the colour of the blocks here for printing. (3-3) |
| REDEYE | Unwanted effect in photography that affects the colour of the subject's pupils (3,3) |
| RACEME | 'To the end of the block! C'mon!' |
| BRICKS | They're the blocks in The House (6) |
| STREAK | Course or succession of luck or wins; a swift dash; or, the colour of the powder of a mineral (6) |
| YELLOW | The colour of the leader's jersey in the Tour de France |
| NOTSET | Unprepared, as a sprinter in the blocks |
| ICEMEN | You will find them delivering around the blocks (6) |
| GARNET | Derived from Latin meaning "pomegranate", a gem that is the colour of the arils of said fruit (6) |
| CERISE | The colour of the saucer is emerald (6) |
| INDIGO | One of the colours of the rainbow (6) |
| PRISMS | They separate beams of white light into the colours of the visible spectrum. |
| BLUISH | Close to the color of the sky |
| SHADES | The colours of the blinds (6) |
| ICECUBES | One church reporter with desk at the centre of the blocks of water coolers? (3,5) |
| STARTINGGUN | It's bang on for getting out of the blocks! (8,3) |
| FIRSTOFF | Leading out of the blocks, to begin with? (5,3) |
| OFFTOAFASTSTART | Quick out of the blocks, and a hint to the circled letters |
| EAUDENIL | Pale pastel-green hue named for its supposed resemblance to the colour of the water of the river credited as the world's longest (3,2,3) |
| EOS | Greek word for dawn, given as the genus name of a species of lory with red-and-blue plumage, reminiscent of the colours of the sky at daybreak (3) |
